The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional factors and our own behavior to situational factors is called ______.

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The actor-observer effect describes the tendency to attribute our own actions to external, situational factors while attributing other people's actions to internal, dispositional factors. This bias highlights the difference in perspective when we are the actor (focusing on the situation) versus when we are the observer (focusing on the person's traits).

The Tendency to Attribute Other People's Behavior to Dispositional Factors